On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm seeing more and more that one very big source of instability in plasma- > shell for me are tooltips, especially quickly passing the mouse over many > stuff that has a tooltip (making many move/resize event, many content > changes) > I don't know if is a driver issue (happens for me with catalyst and nvidia > blobs). but often doesn't just freeze or kill plasma-shell, it brings down > the > whole x session for me. > > I seen that if i disable animations in tooltips (animating the position of > an > x11 window is probably not a such good idea anyways ;) the situation gets > slightly better and i have slightly less blowups (sometimes still happens > with > taskbar thumbnails, but they seem to have instabilities as well). > > I propose to disable the moving animation of plasma tooltips at all for now > (hoping that wayland, as universal solution of the world's problems, will > solve that too ;) > > one thing that may be done, would work using the kwin effect currently used > for windows maximize for animating (in a fake way) tooltips position and > size? > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > Hi, I have intel and I get similar problems. TBH, I'm unsure of what's the reason, but giving up on them util Wayland without knowing the reason doesn't sound like the thing to do... I would say we can disable it for the next release if we can't fix it first... we had that on Plasma 1 anyway, no? Aleix
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